Shoe-ironer.



PATENTED JAN. 7, 1908.

s. J. WENTWORTH.

SHOE IRONER.

APPLICATION FILED JULY8,1907.

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bell and State of Kentucliy, have invented peripheral swe UNITED STATES PAT NT oiuucn SAMUEL J. WENTWORTH, OF NEWPORT, KENTUCKY, ASSIGNOR 'lO 'llll'] \\'l.\"|\\'()lt'lll COMPANY, OF CINQTNNATI, OHIO, ACORPORA'IION.

SHOE-IRONER.

1%. 876,249. Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Jan. 7, 1908.

' Application filed July 8. 1907. Serial No. 382,639.

To all whom it may concern: end. The outer periphery of the sleeve 6 -Be it known that I, SAMUEL J. WENT- is provided with the bearing surface upon WORTH, a citizen of the United States, rewhich is rotatably mounted the hollow iron siding atNewport, in the county of Camp- 8, having the eripheral edge 9, the convex ii 10, and the sloping or concertain ,new and useful mprovements in ically extending portion 11, which parts are Shoe-Ironers, of which the followingis a shaped to fit the various portions of the shoe specification. to be ironed. Thebeater 12 is attached to My invention relates to a shoe ironer. the spindle 3 and it extends through the 40 The object of the. invention is to provide sleeve 6 and reciprocates therein. Eleca sleeve ironer of. proper shape supported trical heating devices, not shown, are used to on the journal bearing so that itcan be ro-' heat the iron and beater. The iron is nortated by rolling the shoe against its pemally stationary but it rotates on its bearriphery. ings when the shoe is presented thereto and It 'is'further the object of the inventionto drawn across the iron concentrical to the combine the iron with a beating device, so axis. This is an extremely convenient that the beating and ironing can be handled arrangement, and an iron'which rotates with by the same operator on the same shoe. the shoe has been found of great eflieiency.

The features of the invention are more Having deseribedmy invention,Iclai1n fully set forth in the description of the ac- In combination with a; beater, a fixed companying drawings forming a part of this sleeve surrounding the beater, a hollow ironspeclfication, in which: I ing. cylinder rotatively- 'ournaled on said Figure 1 is acentral vertical section of the fixed sleeve, and adapted to be rotated by device. Fig. 2 is a'top plan view thereof. drawing the shoe into contact with the 1 represents the supporting standard, havironer, substantially as described. ing the horizontal sleeve to 2, in which In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set horizontally recigrocates the eater spindle my hand;

3, this s indie eing actuated by engage- SAMUEL J. WENTWORTH. ment witi the. cam wheel 4. To the for- Witnesses: ward end of the sleeve-2 is secured a bracket OLIVER B. KAISER,

5, having the hollow sleeve 6 at its forward LEO ODONNELL. 

